Just look at that passion

Love the passion and also the attacking intent even if it didn’t fully deliver (hard to go from shit to great in one game)

Just one minor area for improvement was I thought he got the substitution wrong when he took Rodgers off. Poveda had gone down with cramp and looked disinterested for the following 5 mins and had given up. We left him on the pitch only for him to later go off injured.
I thought both could have come off sooner.

Also I would have liked him at some stage to swap the wingers as neither were getting any joy against their full backs. So either swap them and see if it made any difference or when we were getting over run second half, make the obvious substitution quicker that he made with Patino coming on (leave 3 up front and additional player into midfield)

I don’t think we will see Poveda again. He limped off and doesn’t seem to have the fire in his belly when it’s not working for him.
 
Chunkylad said:
Love the passion and also the attacking intent even if it didn’t fully deliver (hard to go from shit to great in one game)

Just one minor area for improvement was I thought he got the substitution wrong when he took Rodgers off. Poveda had gone down with cramp and looked disinterested for the following 5 mins and had given up. We left him on the pitch only for him to later go off injured.
I thought both could have come off sooner.

Also I would have liked him at some stage to swap the wingers as neither were getting any joy against their full backs. So either swap them and see if it made any difference or when we were getting over run second half, make the obvious substitution quicker that he made with Patino coming on (leave 3 up front and additional player into midfield)

I don’t think we will see Poveda again. He limped off and doesn’t seem to have the fire in his belly when it’s not working for him.
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By the sound of it, the lad doesn't make the effort to keep himself properly in shape.... been nowhere near fit enough every time he's played.
 
Agree with that. Poveda was done after about 65 mins and should definitely have come off then. Talented lad but staying power and commitment is questionable.
 
I like Dobbie ,and I think he really wants to be successful , but that was the worst performance at Bloomfield all season . We held on against the bottom club in the league. If he is to keep the job ,we need the impatient fans at the ground and on these websites to allow Dobbie to lose most of the games for the rest of the season rather then getting on his back once we play poorly or get a bad result.

Fans got on both Appleton's and MaCarthy's back within a couple of games. They need to accept we will probably lose most of our last games.
 
Ormergod said:
Worst performance at home this season?nowhere near the worst

Totally disagree with that
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So do I.
We were playing a team of giants, they dwarfed our guys.
We did well to beat them.
3 of our players needing treatment and had to leave the field.
Just hope they are fit for the next match. Probably too soon for some.
 
Adams Kebab said:
What a clown 😆🤡

How many games have you been to?
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I have watch all the home games ,except Burnley and you like a few other people seem to think a win is a good performance. We were outplayed by the bottom club in the league and if you think that those likes agree with you don't . If I put any comment on here, I get a small group of fans that will always support anything opposite to what I write .
 
A win is a win but we have to be honest and say it was a poor team performance and we struggled, even if some individuals did quite well at times. The team just didn't look cohesive, I can't really put my finger on the exact problem yesterday but I feel we struggle to build play out from the back and up top nothing seemed to gel apart from the goal. I liked the high tempo and don't think we need possession for possessions sake but after the goal, in the final third nothing seemed to come off, morr often than not resulting in us doing a couple of passes and then getting it wrong and having a poor shot or a misplaced pass.

It was definitely a step in the right direction, with some good ideas and good team selection, shame its not the first game of the season because with more time it might have come together nicely.
 
I seem to have disagreement about me saying that the Wigan game was the worst performance at Home all season. I suppose Cardiff could be the worst for some people , but if you take the opposition into account, the match stats and the actual number of times we looked like scoring after the first goal ,I can't think of a match at Bloomfield where we looked like not scoring all game . Even against Cardiff we had chances to score. I can't think of any other game that was as negative as that . Even McCarthy's so called hoof ball gave us at least 3 or 4 chances within the 90 minutes.
 
A lot of people are missing the fact that we were playing a team of big guys.
Dwarfed our lads.
How many of our guys needed treatment on the play?
Three I think, and all went off afterwards.
The lads did well.
I know, I said that in an earlier Post, but the point is made.
 
WIZARD OF TANGERINE said:
I have watch all the home games ,except Burnley and you like a few other people seem to think a win is a good performance. We were outplayed by the bottom club in the league and if you think that those likes agree with you don't . If I put any comment on here, I get a small group of fans that will always support anything opposite to what I write .
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So you think yesterday was worse than Boro at home? Cardiff at home? Hull?

If you do football is not for you and the reason people probably support the opposite of what you write is because it’s complete and utter nonsense.
 
Davepick said:
A lot of people are missing the fact that we were playing a team of big guys.
Dwarfed our lads.
How many of our guys needed treatment on the play?
Three I think, and all went off afterwards.
The lads did well.
I know, I said that in an earlier Post, but the point is made.
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What does a team of 'big guys' have to do with us not being able to pass to each other and keep making wrong decisions?

The big guys were better on the ball than our little guys, which shouldn't be the case.

Our heads went completely in an attacking sense and it was basically a rear guard action only at times.

Tbf we did that well but Wigan didn't pose much threat, but we so have to take some credit for that.

We'll have to be a lot better than we showed if we are to beat WBA, which we probably have to do.
 
WIZARD OF TANGERINE said:
I like Dobbie ,and I think he really wants to be successful , but that was the worst performance at Bloomfield all season . We held on against the bottom club in the league. If he is to keep the job ,we need the impatient fans at the ground and on these websites to allow Dobbie to lose most of the games for the rest of the season rather then getting on his back once we play poorly or get a bad result.

Fans got on both Appleton's and MaCarthy's back within a couple of games. They need to accept we will probably lose most of our last games.
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The previous game against Cardiff was a lot worse than yesterday for starters.
 
I think the negative view of yesterday’s performance by some is they are focussing too much on how much possession of the ball Wigan had and not looking at the things we did well.They had a lot of the ball but did nothing with it,let them knock it side to side all game.Not saying we were good but moving in the right direction.
 
To be fair, I didn't think we were particularly hanging on until they started pumping high balls into the area, an with their forwards being so tall we were going to struggle a little. I would agree we will have to be better against West Bromley, but we don't have the players to put out a stronger team than yesterday. Maybe leave Bowler on the bench and have CJ on. Also I didn't think our saviour, Grimmy, was any better at commanding his area or his distribution than the much maligned Maxwell.
 
BFC_BFC_BFC said:
By the sound of it, the lad doesn't make the effort to keep himself properly in shape.... been nowhere near fit enough every time he's played.
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It looked like the drinking rumours are true as he’s not capable of flat out full half of a match
That’s why he will never make it at the highest level as he’s lacking that absolute commitment to be a week in week out performer.
 
It felt to me that Dobbie was ok with them having the ball.

Also the fact we scored so early may have changed the game plan.

At the end of the day, regardless that Wigan are bottom, we did a job and got the 3 points.

It could be completely different against WBA where we press more.
 
Adams Kebab said:
So you think yesterday was worse than Boro at home? Cardiff at home? Hull?

If you do football is not for you and the reason people probably support the opposite of what you write is because it’s complete and utter nonsense.
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And you think that a team that is BOTTOM of the table that dominated us in shots and possession allowing us 2 shots on target in 90 minutes and 1 of them went in , is better then those games you mention . Give your head a shake.
 
Wizaard said:
The previous game against Cardiff was a lot worse than yesterday for starters.
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We had 2 shots on target against the bottom club and 37% possession .Against Cardiff we had 62 % possession and 4 shots on target . As entertainment goes I think I know which game I would choose . Sadly our defence was not good enough against Cardiff.
 
WIZARD OF TANGERINE said:
And you think that a team that is BOTTOM of the table that dominated us in shots and possession allowing us 2 shots on target in 90 minutes and 1 of them went in , is better then those games you mention . Give your head a shake.
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Someone’s been reading the BBC stats and not using their eyes at the match 👍🏼
 
Adams Kebab said:
Someone’s been reading the BBC stats and not using their eyes at the match 👍🏼
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I watched the match and we had hardly any possession and few chances . The stats I need to get from somewhere to prove a point . I don't look through tangerine tinted glasses . I write what I think is correct and if I am proved wrong I have apologised . Some people don't like the truth sometimes , but that is why I enjoy writing on here.
 
WIZARD OF TANGERINE said:
We had 2 shots on target against the bottom club and 37% possession .Against Cardiff we had 62 % possession and 4 shots on target . As entertainment goes I think I know which game I would choose . Sadly our defence was not good enough against Cardiff.
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Wigan's possession was that good it nearly gave us a goal as the centre halves passed to and fro and presented it to Jerry.

I can only remember Grimmy having one shot to save after he dropped the ball from a cross. Other than that, they created nothing at all.

We may not have had shots, but we had some good passages of play and interchanges that were let down with the final ball. They never had a final ball.
 
WIZARD OF TANGERINE said:
We had 2 shots on target against the bottom club and 37% possession .Against Cardiff we had 62 % possession and 4 shots on target . As entertainment goes I think I know which game I would choose . Sadly our defence was not good enough against Cardiff.
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All that matters is the score.

We were much the better team against Luton in the first half and had more shots etc and look how that ended up.

A win is a win and how we got it who cares all that matters is we didn’t lose the game & with 4 to play we are still in with a hope (albeit very small).
 
Wizaard said:
Wigan's possession was that good it nearly gave us a goal as the centre halves passed to and fro and presented it to Jerry.

I can only remember Grimmy having one shot to save after he dropped the ball from a cross. Other than that, they created nothing at all.

We may not have had shots, but we had some good passages of play and interchanges that were let down with the final ball. They never had a final ball.
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They had twice as many shots on goal , They would have had a penalty if we used VAR and apart from the goal we scored ,our other shot on target was Bowlers miss kick.
 
WIZARD OF TANGERINE said:
I like Dobbie ,and I think he really wants to be successful , but that was the worst performance at Bloomfield all season . We held on against the bottom club in the league. If he is to keep the job ,we need the impatient fans at the ground and on these websites to allow Dobbie to lose most of the games for the rest of the season rather then getting on his back once we play poorly or get a bad result.

Fans got on both Appleton's and MaCarthy's back within a couple of games. They need to accept we will probably lose most of our last games.
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Haha surely not. Worst performance you are having a laugh.

What about hull, Middlesbrough, Coventry and all the other home spankings we had?
 
Chunkylad said:
It looked like the drinking rumours are true as he’s not capable of flat out full half of a match
That’s why he will never make it at the highest level as he’s lacking that absolute commitment to be a week in week out performer.
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Too busy worrying about his Lamborghini 🙈
 
PR3BFC said:
All that matters is the score.

We were much the better team against Luton in the first half and had more shots etc and look how that ended up.

A win is a win and how we got it who cares all that matters is we didn’t lose the game & with 4 to play we are still in with a hope (a
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SouthernSeasider said:
Haha surely not. Worst performance you are having a laugh.

What about hull, Middlesbrough, Coventry and all the other home spankings we had?
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So in your eyes you can't play well if you lose a game. We had 2 shots on target at home against the bottom club in the division . One was the goal and the other was Bowlers miss kick . They may not have scored ,but had twice as many shots on target against us ,twice the possession nearly and could have had a penalty in the first half. Now you go and have a look at the stats on the games you are mentioning and if any are nearly as bad ,take in account that Wigan are bottom of the division .
 
WIZARD OF TANGERINE said:
So in your eyes you can't play well if you lose a game. We had 2 shots on target at home against the bottom club in the division . One was the goal and the other was Bowlers miss kick . They may not have scored ,but had twice as many shots on target against us ,twice the possession nearly and could have had a penalty in the first half. Now you go and have a look at the stats on the games you are mentioning and if any are nearly as bad ,take in account that Wigan are bottom of the division .
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Whichever way you look at the Cardiff game, it was one devoid of attacking intent and atrocious defending. It was probably the most downbeat I've ever felt coming away from the ground. How you can say yesterday's was worse is staggering, quite frankly.

We didn't have many shots, but we defended well enough and were the more threatening side despite any figures you can quote at me.

I never felt they were going to score. Even their manager said as much.
 
WIZARD OF TANGERINE said:
So in your eyes you can't play well if you lose a game. We had 2 shots on target at home against the bottom club in the division . One was the goal and the other was Bowlers miss kick . They may not have scored ,but had twice as many shots on target against us ,twice the possession nearly and could have had a penalty in the first half. Now you go and have a look at the stats on the games you are mentioning and if any are nearly as bad ,take in account that Wigan are bottom of the division .
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Fully agree. Some of the dunderheads on here just look at the result.
 
It clearly really means a lot to Dobbie and to Blinkhorn who’s a Blackpool lad. My head still says we’re down but it’s nice to see the coaching staff have some belief and passion
 
WIZARD OF TANGERINE said:
We had 2 shots on target against the bottom club and 37% possession .Against Cardiff we had 62 % possession and 4 shots on target . As entertainment goes I think I know which game I would choose . Sadly our defence was not good enough against Cardiff.
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if they hadn't have had a three point deduction,we would of been at the bottom of the league before yesterday's game.
At the minute the only thing that counts is goals scored.
 
WIZARD OF TANGERINE said:
So in your eyes you can't play well if you lose a game. We had 2 shots on target at home against the bottom club in the division . One was the goal and the other was Bowlers miss kick . They may not have scored ,but had twice as many shots on target against us ,twice the possession nearly and could have had a penalty in the first half. Now you go and have a look at the stats on the games you are mentioning and if any are nearly as bad ,take in account that Wigan are bottom of the division .
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I literally said in the post you quoted we played well first half at Luton in a game we lost?
 
Wizaard said:
Whichever way you look at the Cardiff game, it was one devoid of attacking intent and atrocious defending. It was probably the most downbeat I've ever felt coming away from the ground. How you can say yesterday's was worse is staggering, quite frankly.

We didn't have many shots, but we defended well enough and were the more threatening side despite any figures you can quote at me.

I never felt they were going to score. Even their manager said as much.
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We all have our opinions.
 
We may have played badly , I didn’t think so but there was a certain calmness about the defence. No Maxwell springs to mind. I wasn’t waiting for the inevitable first goal for them. Our away game with Wigan was definately the lowest point of my season watching the Mighty.
 
Our worst performance of this season by miles imo (at home - I haven't seen all the away ones) was Middlesboro. They spent minutes at a time passing it around us in or around our own penalty area, it was genuinely embarrassing. You wouldn't see such a difference in class between a Premier league side and a league two side in the cup. We were extremely lucky it was only 3-0.

The game on Saturday was bad. But we competed and actually Wigan may have had the possession but it was mostly quite far away from our goal, unlike against Boro.
 
We needed 3 points and we got 3 points.
I get that it's not pretty, but beggars can't be choosers at this stage.

It's not going to be perfect overnight, they've got to somehow instill confidence, fix the damage caused by the last 2 managers and work out a way to try and stay up all at the same time.
 
WIZARD OF TANGERINE said:
I seem to have disagreement about me saying that the Wigan game was the worst performance at Home all season. I suppose Cardiff could be the worst for some people , but if you take the opposition into account, the match stats and the actual number of times we looked like scoring after the first goal ,I can't think of a match at Bloomfield where we looked like not scoring all game . Even against Cardiff we had chances to score. I can't think of any other game that was as negative as that . Even McCarthy's so called hoof ball gave us at least 3 or 4 chances within the 90 minutes.
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Did you watch it? We did have chances to score...?
 
WIZARD OF TANGERINE said:
I have watch all the home games ,except Burnley and you like a few other people seem to think a win is a good performance. We were outplayed by the bottom club in the league and if you think that those likes agree with you don't . If I put any comment on here, I get a small group of fans that will always support anything opposite to what I write .
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Just ignore any negatives, you like every other poster, are allowed their say. I'm used to being lambasted for what I say and it's like water off a ducks back. That said, I thought it was a nail biter of a game from the moment we scored, and the obvious positivity in the team was encouraging, better than the capitulation against Cardiff but still a lot of work to do. Can we survive? Maybe not, but that will be down to 46 games, not the final 4 or 5.
 
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